Team power

The time of lone fighters is over. Today, goals are not achieved individually anymore, but within teams. However, team work only makes sense if the team is better than the sum of its parts.

Many teams accomplish less than what each team member would do if they worked individually. In contrast, there are teams that achieve much more than its individual members. Therefore, a central challenge for any leader is to determine potential synergy effects.

Of course, each team member's collaboration is crucial for effective team work. But thought-out software can contribute to your team's success as well, probably more than you'd suppose.

 

Team work can be quite different

meineZIELE helps you organize team work, visualize common goals and each team member's tasks and keep the overview of the team's development. You do not have to fit your way of working to a predetermined concept. Rather, meineZIELE will adapt to you. It will support you with 8 different types of team work. You choose which of them you want to use in your team.

•  The most important kind of team work is the development of common goals, with a projector on a screen. (Tip: Use our conference clock every now and then.)
•  Improve your team's development by using the radar-method which is available in mZ Pro
•  Export tasks and projects from meineZIELE, e.g. to provide them as htm-pages in your intranet
•  Teams that work strongly project-oriented, such as IT departments, can work on common project files. These can be checked in and out within the main outline.
•  There are teams where the members work very independently from each other. Here, team members often just want to stay up to date about what the others consider their most important objectives and on which tasks they are working. For this purpose, meineZIELE provides a simple team reporting system.
•  If the team members work closely with each other, they can reproduce their team in meineZIELE and delegate, report and exchange tasks including all necessary information and files.
•  There are teams where upcoming tasks have to be distributed by one of the team members. Think about a secretary who answers the telephone and has to distribute the emerging tasks. Then, they can transfer a task to a team member rather than delegating it.
•  We have also thought about the special cases. What, if several people have to share one computer, what could easily happen e.g. within the sales team of a pharmacy? Here, each team member can still work on her own file and switch to another user in meineZIELE in no time.
• In some cases somebody "publishes" a problem/task within the team for some kind of collaboration and team members then add subtasks or documents.

 

The most important starting point of team work

... is the team cycle, also called the "schedule-measurement"-cycle. If you could effectively take advantage of this cycle, your team would undergo a great boost. A determined team organization can cause enormous improvement in performance.

meineZIELE's team functions help you get there. Use meineZIELE directly on screen to discuss common goals and upcoming tasks.

According to your situation, you could even organize the whole data transfer of your team with meineZIELE, without the well-known e-mail chaos.